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BAKER v. CITY OF KISSIMMEE, FLA.

No. 81-51-Civ-Orl.

645 F.Supp. 571 (1986)

Joyce M. BAKER, Catherine Hammonds, Margaret Baker, Cathy Baker, Tommy Lee McKinney, Ernestine Alexander, Amanda Chappell, Naomi Baker, W.J. Dumas, King S. Baker, Vernette Everette, George Jenkins and Nathaniel Nole, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, Dr. George Gant, Mayor; Commissioners James Wells, Bruce R. Van Meter, Ken Maher, and Naomi Winbush, their successors and agents in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Orlando Division.

September 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Lipman and Robert E. Weisberg, of Lipman & Weisberg, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs.

Norman J. Smith, of Brinson, Smith, Heller & Smith, P.A., Kissimmee, Fla., for defendant City of Kissimmee.

William E. Lawton, of Dean, Ringers, Morgan & Lawton, P.A., Orlando, Fla., for defendants Gant, et al.

OPINION AND ORDER

WATSON, Judge, Sitting by Designation.

In this action, filed February 9, 1981, plaintiffs seek injunctive and declaratory relief to restrain defendants from providing certain municipal services in a racially discriminatory manner. Plaintiffs, a class of "all black citizens of the City of Kissimmee who reside in predominately black neighborhoods in the City of Kissimmee", maintain that they have been unlawfully denied their right to municipal...

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